“Is the ACCME trying to put itself out of business?” commented one CME provider during the American Medical Association's conference on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration, held in September in Baltimore. During the conference, Murray Kopelow, MD...

OPENED IN OCTOBER, The Lodge at Buckberry Creek, in East Tennessee's Smoky Mountains, is modeled after the “Great Camps” of the Adirondacks. Nestled above Gatlinburg, the lodge has 46 suites ranging from 575 square feet to 900 square feet in area...

With revenue up 18 percent in the first five months of 2004, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide is enjoying a “record rebound year,” said Bob Cotter, president and COO, at a Motivation Show client luncheon held in late September in Chicago...

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BY MID-OCTOBER labor disputes had caused a lockout at 14 San Francisco hotels and a strike watch at another 23 hotels in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., while negotiators haggled over wages, health insurance costs, pensions, and contract...

To succeed in today's rapidly changing environment, pharmaceutical meeting planners must go beyond implementation of logistics and position themselves as experts in strategic meeting management. Toward that end, Medical Meetings and the Center for...

THE INNER WORKINGS of major pharmaceutical companies are complex labyrinths of philosophies, regulations, strategies, plans, politics, personnel, and departments. In these labyrinths, CME is given varying levels of attention and importance. Some...